Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-10-09

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thousands of shares, and drive il down
with lightning rapidity in spite OF all
opposition.
A NEW VENTURE.
When a New York banker leaves
the business turmoil of Wall street,
where his energies have been taxed in
escaping the horns of the bulls and the
claws Of the bears, his fancy is sup
posed TO lightly turn 10 thoughts of re-
pose. A spin over the road in a trim
Brewster, a well-arranged dinner with
a due assortment of wines, and good
seat at the theatre seem the most be-
guiding variation in the mental straiI.
of Wall street. When instead of this
sort of thing banker elects the man
agement of big amusement scheme,
where the success Is a doubt at the
start and the worry is steady element,
it becomes an interesting problem TO
determine his idea of recreation.
This is what Mr.. Hellman has
done. When be goes up town
after business hours he betakes him
self to the Eden Musee and takes an
active personal conduct Of that place of
amusement. He likes it. IL amuses
him. Those benevolent people, whose
zeal for their fellow creatures leads
them into fluent predictions of disaster
when something new is undertaken,
charitably assured him he couldn't
make the thing ego" Wax figures
couldn't be elevated TO the level of re-
spectability. The crowds would be
coarse, and If it drew only that kind
Of an audience it wasn't going to draw
paying one. The facetious philoso-
pher of old solved the objections
against the possibility of movement by
getting up and walking. Mr. Hellman
adopted a similar method. He proved
that the Eden Musee could be run as
he projected it, and pay by so running
it, and finding it pay.
Encouraged, perhaps, by his success
Mr.. Hellman has lately attempted
something still more difficult. An im-
partial, generous treatment of the work
of native American artists is thing
that any good man can take an interest
in. This is what MIR. Hellman wishes
to accomplish now. He is n member
of the New York Society for the Pro-
motion of Art, and he has added gal
lery to the Eden Musee, which is placed
under the auspices of the body with a
view TO this result.
A few days ago n good crowd of in
vitCd patrons assisted ut the opening of
this gallery. 1t is of modest dimensions
but tastefully, even richly decorated.
An elevator (happy medium of trans
portation) raised the visitors from the
"wax figures" and Munezs Lajos's uu-
trained Pypsies to the higher art of the
floor above. No extra charge is exact
ed for a visit TO the gallery.
If Mr.. Holman succeeds in making
of his new gallery court where justice
and generosity are shown to the Ameri-
can disciples of brush and pigment he
will do a praiseworthy thing and one OF
10 easy accomplishment.
The present collection numbers sixty
four canvases. Some are the work OF
foreign artists. but many are from the
painters on this side OF the water. The
exhibit is q very cIeditable one, and
several of the pictures show al encour-
aging degree of ability. The largest
one in the collection is Charles Giron's
"Deux Seurs." But it is not the best,
and the American public will probably
view the paintings 10y the American
painters with more interest. The re-
suit Of MIR. Hellman's new venture can
not help being interesting, and, in case
of success, gratifying to oil the art low
ers of New York.
A DOZEN WEALTHY EDITORS.
All the chief editors OF the leading
daily papers of New York are men OF
vast wealth, and yet nearly every one OF
them is hard-worker in his business.
The richest of them all is doubtless Mr..
Bennett, OF the Hcraid, who IS still
spoken OF as "young Bennett though
he is Fastening toward the iiitieth year
of his life, most of which is spent in
Europe. The one who has the largest
income ct this time is doubtless MIR.
Pulitzer, of the W'orid, whose fortune
is the resulto four or five years OF en-
terprise. The wealth Of Mr.. Dana, OF
the san, viii be increased this year by
the revenues OF his new evening issue.
Mr.. Reid, of the Tribune, has grown
to be rich man during the past ten
years from the income OF his paper
and of the immense building in which
it is published. Mr.. Jones, of the
Times, who has a lieutenant in the
chair Of editor, is = millionaire. MIR.
| Ottendorfer, OF the Stats ZeituRg,
ranks among the richest editors OF the
CITY. MIR. Albert Pulitzer, OF the Jour
nal. has been raised to fortune by his
papsr within very few years. Mr..
Godkin, of the Post, is u rich man, and
so is Mr. Goodwin, OF the Commercial
Advertiser, and go Is Mr.. Stone, Of
| the JOWndtOf Commerce, and so is Mr..
Field. of the Matt, who delegates the
duty Of editor. 1t is probable that MIR.
DOrsheimer. OF the Star, is the least
wealthy among the editors Of important
dailies in New York but if his paper
should find the pathway of success only
a brief period of time will be needed
10 fiji his Golfers.
One OF these editors got his wealth
by inheritance, four of them got theirs
bv marriage, and the others "made
it for themselves. The most elderly
Of them are Goodwin, Jones, Stone, OF
tendoricr, and Field the youngest OF
them are the brothers Pulitzer, and
among the eray-beards are Dana, Reid,
Bennett, Dorsheimer, and Godkin.
-Four Of the editors here spoken OF are
foreign born, and the other eight are
native Americans. Mr.. Dorsheimer is
the largest of them in size, and Mr..
Jones is the smallest. All of them are
men of strong and striking faces,
and several of them are positively hand
some. 1t would doubtless raise jealousy
in their ranks to decide which is the
best looking in tue eye of an artist, but
any one who knows them all will at
once pick out him who bears the closest
resemblance to the Olympian Jupiter.
The only daily paper in town that has
passed from its founder to his sou is the
Herald, and OF the dozen here named
ten have been wrenched out OF tue
hands that held them at theclose of the
war. All the chief daily editors now
on the stage here have heirs TO whom